Graeme Joy discusses his part in the most international team to ever get to the North pole at Australia Speaks, our 50th anniversary celebration.

Graeme Joy is one of the most focused, effective and highly-ranked motivational speakers in Australasia. He is perhaps best known as joint leader and navigator of the International North Pole Expedition, where he became the first Australian to ski to the North Pole. He subsequently ski-sailed alone to the Magnetic North Pole, becoming the first and only Australian to do so. He has also led expeditions to Mount Denali in Alaska, Mount Vinson in Antarctica, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and across the Australian desert. He has also taken people kayaking in Greenland and Bass Strait.

Joy’s speeches are compelling adventures but they are also much more: they contain all essential business principles that are used in any organisation. These include strategic planning, project management, conflict resolution, defining success, personality types and leadership, all of which is geared towards developing what he describes as the 'High Performance Team'.

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Saxton Speakers' 2015 celebration of 50 years of the business and of the spoken word in Australia was the biggest of its kind in the country, incorporating performances from 24 of Australia's leading speakers and entertainers. You can watch all the individual presenters by clicking on their image below, or view the highlights reel here.